Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took your little circle of loneliness with you. Mary Stewart More Quotes by Mary Stewart More Quotes From Mary Stewart There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death. Mary Stewart navy soldier men I doubt if there are many normal women who can resist looking at houses. I believe, in fact, that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers, but merely ladies who cannot resist exploring someone else's house. Mary Stewart house believe people Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more. Mary Stewart carrie seeds men It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one. Mary Stewart neglect doe may I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted. Mary Stewart get-to-know-me granted men I'm very much to blame for not seeing it before, but who on earth goes about suspecting an impossible outlandish thing like murder? That's something that happens in books, not among people you know. Mary Stewart earth book people I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face. Mary Stewart levels stress blue It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength. Mary Stewart weakness secret reason Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future. Mary Stewart sometimes past thinking Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself. Mary Stewart grief tragedy moving There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter. Mary Stewart laughter anger fear Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted? Mary Stewart tempted wells luck ...the floss-silk manes tossed up like the crest of a breaking wave....Light ran and glittered on them. They were obedient...you would have sworn...as the white horses of the wave crests are to pull of the moon. Mary Stewart horse light moon The mills of God work like lightning compared with the law. Mary Stewart mills lightning law It is harder to kill a whisper than even a shouted calumny. Mary Stewart whisper than even harder
